Electrical and Computer
Engineering

Professor Russell Dupuis investigates semiconductor materials.

A. Adibi

Theoretical and experimental research in the areas of holographic storage and photonic bandgap materials.

J.D. Cressler

Understanding, development, and application of new types of Si-based bandgap-engineered microelectronic devices for high-speed electronics in emerging 21st century communications systems.

W.A. Doolittle

MBE and CVD epitaxy of wide band gap semiconductors and complex metal oxides as well as the design and fabrication of devices from the same. 

R.D. Dupuis

Semiconductor materials and devices, epitaxial growth by metallorganic chemical vapor deposition, heterojunction structures in III-V compound semiconductors.

I.T. Ferguson

Solid state lighting, LEDs/lasers for UV and bio applications, MOCVD growth and fabrication of GaN-based materials, intelligent epitaxy, and spintronics.

B. Kippelen

Investigation of fundamental physical processes in organic materials (nonlinear optical activity, charge transport, light harvesting and emission), and the design, fabrication and testing of light-weight flexible optoelectronic devices based on nanostructured organic materials such as plastic solar cells, field-effect transistors, and organic light-emitting diodes.

B. Klein

Theoretical analysis and computer simulations of next-generation semiconductor photonic devices.

J. Meindl

Microsystems, gigascale integration (GSI), academic leadership.

J.E. Michaels

Ultrasonic testing of components and structures, nondestructive materials characterization, digital signal processing applied to measurement processes,sensors and measurement systems, and robotics and motion controls for automated measurements.

T.E. Michaels

Nondestructive evaluation of components and structures, materials characterization using ultrasonic methods, development of instrumentation and controls for automated testing, digital signal processing of ultrasonic signals, and measurement technology and sensor development.

A. Rohatgi

Modeling and fabrication of low-cost high-efficiency silicon solar cells, Growth and characterization of low-temperature and high-performance dielectrics, defects and carrier lifetime in semiconductors, rapid thermal processing of silicon devices, and growth and optoelectronic properties of compound semiconductors.

R. Tummala

Microsystems systems packaging, electronic materials, display technologies, and magnetic storage.

P.D. Yoder

High-speed photodetectors and electro-absorption modulators, RF testing, modeling and simulation, Monte Carlo charge transport simulation, and semiconductor device physics.

R. Zaghloul

Microelectronics and semiconductor materials, nanotechnology and nanostructures.